Thomas Hauck

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

I like the idea of a classroom project to edit a Wikipedia article. To find a gap like George McClellan's mysteriously slow dismissal and research it, or to address a citation needed item. Rowing the boat is more instructional than rocking it. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

"Simple subjects can become burdened with excessive contribution..." makes me think of Common Core Standards. How many people contributed to these documents? Lots of good ideas in there, but too many? So much distillation and disregard for practical use. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

This, more than concerns about reliability, is Wikipedia's most vexing attribute, "It reads like what it is: an article written by committee, inconsistent in focus, structure, and elaboration. Simple subjects can become burdened with excessive contribution... #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

"Use of Wikipedia be first grounded in this kind of “meta-awareness” of the site regarding its strengths and
limitations." Nice idea, but for students looking for the easiest way to complete an assignment, strict enforcement is necessary. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

"Writing for a real audience, meeting genre expectations, establishing credibility, revising for clarity and purpose, and entering public discussions about the nature of truth, accuracy, and neutrality." Describes Wikipedia well! #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

"How can a site that allows anyone to add, change, or remove information be credible?" This challenge is aimed at Wikipedia, but isn't it applicable to anything on the net? I agree that wiki should not be used as a primary source, but it is generally reliable. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

I think the student I am working with in my case study struggles with word recognition and decoding. I might be able to use this lesson with her: #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

Targeted interventions to specific needs is a great strategy. This flowchart makes it easy: #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

5 tips for grading piqued my curiosity, but it geared mostly for grading papers. A whole class oral response is applicable for math, especially if I can incorporate notes worthy positive and critical observations. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

@LaurieStowell Sometimes when I try to be, sometimes by accident!

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

Couldn't help myself, put the birthday paradox into a spreadsheet: https://t.co/vYRcp6nCdL
I rephrased the formula a little bit to use factorial notation, but it means the same thing ;-P #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

"A well-written math text will be careful to use a word in one sense only... an absolute value is not about something called a "value" that happens to be "absolute", nor is a function about anything functional." Makes me chuckle. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

Not being a passive reader, recreating the longer story behind an elegant math principle speaks to the value of making mistakes in mathematics. Great mathematicians, like great scientists, make a lot of mistakes along the way to determining what works. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

Herein lies the gap between procedural fluency and conceptual mastery, "Don't assume that understanding each phrase, will enable you to understand the whole idea." You can learn to solve a problem by memorizing phrases, but miss the big idea behind the steps. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

How to read math, "the beauty in a novel is in the aesthetic way it uses language... in a math article is in the elegant efficient way it concisely describes precise ideas". Well put! The trouble is efficiently described complexity is conceptually dense. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

I like the process of putting a short story under a microscope, reading closely and deriving as much meaning as possible from it through discussion. As Barker borrowed from Wodnick: “Read Small. Think Big,” close attention to detail evokes deeper meaning. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

It is curious that in a paragraph distinguishing math from reading this quote "I want them to recognize that confusion is an important signal that they’ve encountered something worth thinking about." speaks to the math standard of persevering so eloquently. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

In Barker's article about speaking and listening, I found Myself thinking of the discussion in class today following "The Mask You Live In" viewing. Different process to read than watch a video, but the lively discussion with multiple perspectives is similar. #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

A Modeling Caution: " That doesn’t mean that students sit idly by as the teacher shares his or her thinking." School is not a place where students go to watch teachers work, but students will if not actively told to do otherwise! Your turn to pair practice! #CSUSMMiddleLevel28

[Thomas Hauck @ThomasHauck12]

Teacher "modeling should include metacognition. When
modeling, students deserve to hear the because, why, or how of the thinking." Talking through the what I'm thinking about during the thinking process, make the invisible visible is reverse magic: demystify! #CSUSMMiddleLevel28